Peter Leyden

Peter Leyden is a tech expert and thought leader on artificial intelligence, the implications of transformative technologies like clean energy, and the positive possibilities of the near future. 

Leyden has followed the front edge of technological change ever since coming to San Francisco to work with the founders of WIRED magazine at the beginning of The Digital Age and the arrival of the internet. His first book, The Long Boom, foretold from that time how the digital economy would transform the world over the next 25 years—and largely did. 

Through his keynote talks as a tech expert and futurist, Leyden has become known for figuring out the potentially positive impacts of transformative technologies and his writing and keynotes are generally optimistic takes on what’s possible in the near future.

The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050 is his forthcoming book, to be published by HarperCollins—which does for The AI Age what The Long Boom did for The Digital Age. The book will lay out a new narrative about how we could harness AI and other transformative technologies to drive progress, reinvent America, and make a much better world. His work on the upcoming book includes writing a popular series of essays in Substack under the same name.  

Leyden is well positioned to give audiences a comprehensive understanding of all the key issues surrounding artificial intelligence after hosting one of the premier event series at ground zero in San Francisco called The AI Age Begins for the two years after generative AI burst on the scene. He convened an extraordinary network of top tech experts in the region to come up with answers to the key issues surrounding the arrival of this world-changing tool—and he continues hosting and convening his network today. 

Leyden has stepped beyond the role of thought leader and been an entrepreneur who founded two startup companies on that front edge of tech change, one in the early days of YouTube and then Zoom. 

Today Leyden is founder of his own strategic foresight firm Reinvent Futures, where he advises senior leaders on the four key questions that he has pursued throughout his career: What’s really going on today? What’s probably coming in the next decade? What’s possible to achieve in the next 25 years? And what should we do now?

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